Welfare Leads to Slavery

How to obtain peace and prosperity for all is the defining issue of our day.

Erik Johnson, the black mayor of Dallas, Texas, wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal this week called America’s Cities Need Republicans: And I’m Becoming One.

Mr. Johnson writes (emphasis mine):

Many of our cities are in disarray. Mayors and local elected officials have failed to prioritize public safety or exercise fiscal restraint. Most of these local leaders are proud Democrats who view cities as laboratories for liberalism rather than havens for opportunity and free enterprise.

“How,” one might ask, “are American cities becoming laboratories for liberalism?”

Government handouts in Baltimore, New York, San Franciso, Washington D.C., and other large American cities to “those in need” have led to the gradual downfall of those cities.

In other words, welfare is destroying the United States.

Thomas Sowell, America’s leading black philosopher and …